vocal harmonizer

[~pop]

I have been cutting vocal tracks very old fashion ways.
I have been doing multiple layers of vocal tracks for long time.
It gives that very natural feel, but it is very time consuming and
having perfect tracks of 6tracks vocals can take all night.
I am thinking about getting a vocal harmonizer to cut the backup vocals.
The price varies from $100 to $3500.
There are low end product like Digitech Vocalist to very expensive Eventide. I am thinking about mid range product like TC Helicon, which can be purchased for less than $900. What products do you use?

[~arronc]

Melodyne does the trick for me. Load up the vocals and create additional multitracks of copies of the original files.

Because you can change the intonation and formants of the source material, you can normally get away with it.

CR8 is a bargin and does the job !

[~pop]

I remembered playing with the demo long time ago.
It was very unstable, but that was long time ago.
I heard that it is now vst plugin. How flexible is it?
Do you have any samples of your own?
I hate listening to manufacture's demo, because they never list detail studio enviornment that was involved in recording the demo.

[~arronc]

It is still pretty awkward/unstable, I will switch to rolands vproducer platform if version 2 is not a big improvement !

It isnt availble as a plugin yet : thats version 2 which is comming soon.

I will get some samples from the studio next time Im in there : Im not a big fan of backing vocals, so these are just demos I did to make sure it worked, and what it was cable of. Dont expect musical masterpeices !

I did wonder about getting a vp9000 second hand now they are so cheap for doing backing vox, but never followed it up.

[~sprung]

I just begun to play with harmonizer, it was a powerfull effects!

I'm using the Digitech Studio Quad. This processor is'nt focus on this function but work well.

Parameters: mix dry/wet, balance, key, scale, interval, level, pan

I've use Studio Quad on this song (http://www.headscan.net/download/pattern_mp3/lolife_demo.mp3)

Somebody know good Harmonizer plugins?

Cheers !

[~pop]

it sounds nice, but i am more keen on natural vocal sounds.

[~sprung]

understand but it depent the way you use it!

If the voice source is clean, the voice will sound layered

btw, I've listen some of your stuff and like it alot

[~Color Theory]

In my humble opinion, there's no substitute for recording all your background vocals, unless you're purposely going for a synthesized sound. The subtle differences in timbre when you sing in different ranges helps enrich the overall sound.

[~sprung]

totally agree with Color Theory but using harmonizer make interesting effects too!

Depend what you want at the end!

[~pop]

I like having options. I think it might be a cool tool if it is used in a right song.
Thanks sprung for a nice comment. :)